[gsatic]

As long as you can avoid people/projects that are primarily about "scaling" things, you will be fine.

Scale is what reveals the limitions of our 3 inch chimp brains.

Lots of things allow quick scale up these days, but issues scale up too. And our chimp brains dont scale fast enough to solve them. Tools and sytems have gotten sophisticated and complex. But the chimps will stay chimps.

Find small companies doing simple things.

[vladfr]

Good advice, I thought I would do exactly that, and ended up at a startup. Looks like they are not trying to achieve super-scale, and that's good. Perhaps we're mired in the old ways of thinking, where we over-optimise for everything, even though we don't need it (nor indeed, we ever will).

Perhaps I'm an attitude-adjustment away from it. Time will tell!